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Global, Regional, and Local Dynamics in the Yemen Crisis

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Editors:
  1. Stephen W. Day

    1. Department of International Affairs, Rollins College - Holt School, Winter Park, USA

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  2. Noel Brehony

    1. Menas Associates, London, UK

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  • Offers the reader a rigorous, well-researched analysis of how and why the political crisis and war in Yemen occurred

  • Provides crucial historical background information extending back to 2010, one year before the Arab Spring

  • Brings together contributions from top scholars, examining Yemen's political crisis and war through the lens of the multiple-actor analytical model

  • Considers the internal roles of President Hadi, former president Saleh, Houthi rebels, the Islah party, Hirak movement, Southern Transitional Council, and various Salafi and Jihadi groups like al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxi
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  2. Introduction

    • Stephen W. Day
    Pages 1-12

  3. Global Dynamics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. The Role of the United Nations in the Yemen Crisis

      • Helen Lackner
      Pages 15-32

    3. The British Role in the Yemen Crisis

      • Noel Brehony
      Pages 33-49

    4. America’s Role in the Yemen Crisis

      • Stephen W. Day
      Pages 51-68

    5. The European Union’s Role in the Yemen Crisis

      • Laurent Bonnefoy
      Pages 69-80

    6. The Russian Role in the Yemen Crisis

      • Samuel Ramani
      Pages 81-96

    7. The Chinese Perspective on the Yemen Crisis

      • I-wei Jennifer Chang
      Pages 97-111

  4. Regional Dynamics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. Saudi Arabia’s Role in the Yemen Crisis

      • Bruce Riedel
      Pages 115-130

    3. The UAE’s Role in the Yemen Crisis

      • Noel Brehony
      Pages 131-147

    4. Iran’s Role in the Yemen Crisis

      • Alex Vatanka
      Pages 149-164

    5. Omani and Qatari Roles in the Yemen Crisis

      • Abdullah Baabood, Ahmed Baabood
      Pages 165-178

    6. Turkey and Egypt in the Yemen Crisis

      • Özlem Tür
      Pages 179-193

    7. The Horn of Africa and the Yemen Crisis

      • Alex de Waal
      Pages 195-208

  5. Local Dynamics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
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    2. The Role of “Legitimacy,” Hadi, and the Islah Party

      • Nadwa al-Dawsari, Summer Nasser
      Pages 211-231

    3. The Role of “Coup Forces,” Saleh, and the Houthis

      • Luca Nevola, Baraa Shiban
      Pages 233-251

    4. The Role of Hirak and the Southern Transitional Council

      • Stephen W. Day
      Pages 253-270
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About this book

This international relations study investigates the underlying causes of the Yemen crisis by analyzing the interactions of global, regional, and local actors. At all phases, GCC member states played a key role, from political negotiations amidst street protests in 2011 to formation of an international military coalition in 2015. Using a multi-actor model, the book shows that various actors, whether state or non-state, foreign or domestic, combined to create a disastrous armed conflict and humanitarian crisis. Yemen’s tragedy is often blamed on Saudi Arabia and its rivalry with Iran, which is usually defined in sectarian “Sunni-Shia” terms, yet the book presents a more complex picture of what happened due to involvement by many other foreign actors, such as the UAE, UN, UK, US, EU, Russia, China, Turkey, Oman, Qatar, and African states of the Red Sea and Horn of Africa. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of International Affairs, Rollins College - Holt School, Winter Park, USA

    Stephen W. Day

  • Menas Associates, London, UK

    Noel Brehony

About the editors

Stephen W. Day is Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at Rollins College, and former Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle East Politics at St. Lawrence University and Stetson University, USA.


Noel Brehony CMG is Honorary Vice President and former Chair of the British Yemeni Society. He is former President of the British Society for Middle East Studies and former Chair of the Council for British Research in the Levant. 

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